Re: [CR]Freeing up seized spoke nipples?

(Example: Framebuilders:Richard Moon)

Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:37:36 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Freeing up seized spoke nipples?
References: <20051005015954.75198.qmail@web34303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051005015954.75198.qmail@web34303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Joe Starck wrote:
> Is it appropriate, allowable, for posts to always be
> accompanied by quotes, as Sheldon Brown always does,
> no matter the looseness of association to the contents
> of the post, no matter the political/religious
> message?

Such quotes are considered to be part of the signature, not the message content and thus are judged by a looser standard. The email RFCs suggest that such signatures be kept short -- 4 lines is a frequent rule of thumb: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
> And what's the difference between quoting others and quoting oneself, really?

Nothing but modesty, generally.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA